Sunday, December 26, 2010

.....on Santa Cruz Island to the Charles Darwin Research Center. A main focus of this Center is to prolong and breed the Galapagos Tortoise population to avoid extinction.

The Tortoises in my previous post were in the wild, but there are some friendly resident Tortoises that live here.

Juan: Hey look! It's JB's mom!

Jose:I think you are right, Juan! It is JB's mom!!Let's tell Georgetoo!

The Charles Darwin Center is also home to "Lonesome George", who is the last known living Pinta Tortoise. The Center continues to try to encourage George to breed with other species of Tortoises to try to continue his blood line, but so far no luck. George looks a bit sad, don't you think?

Since the 1970's, the Center has been successful in bringing population numbers of 10 endangered species of Tortoises back to guarded levels. Each Tortoise is numbered on their shell to keep track of them.Then came something mom truly did not want to see.....

Tortoises are naturally vegetarian, but here was rebel Tortoise #17, eating my friend, the Rat! This is very unusual and someone from the Center came immediately to remove the Rat.

Ok, on that note, I hope my next new animal friends will not be DEAD!!

Next up will be a hike to an old volcanic crater, to search for Darwin's Finches!

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